I'd have to disagree about solar thermal, we not too long ago got this one running in the US: http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...

There's this one in Israel due to be finished in 2017: http://www.brightsourceenergy....

One in Chile that was just announced: http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08...

One in South Africa: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.p...

That looks pretty active to me, and far from dead, Spain alone has 30 smaller thermal solar plants already and is building another dozen or so, along with lots of other ones in development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

I just hope they put their top guys on this and figure out that they need to go at night!

Everything search tool @ http://www.voidtools.com/

Every data packrat or file hoarder needs this program!

That 2+ million defensive uses a year was pretty much blown away as being a poorly devised survey, one reported using their gun 52 times in a year. When they were checked back on, some said they hadn't been attacked at all, but still reported that they'd used a gun to defend themselves, etc.

Try this instead, starting on page 8 and on.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf

Coincidentally I went to jr. high with one of Admiral Zumwalt's granddaughters in NC.

I don't find the idea of Vegan Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robots, or VEATRs (Granola Terminators) much more reassuring, but thanks for trying.

Whether he deserved it or not according to you or me or whoever, it's not for the US military to decide what he does and does not deserve, much less force a prisoner to do something they would obviously find very offensive, and to a muslim that would probably amount to psychological abuse, much less again and again.

He was a captured prisoner, the head of state of a sovereign nation (not that the Bushites believe that exists), tyrant or not, it's up to the Iraqis or the world court to decide his punishment and fate, not the guy holding the key to the cell that personally enjoys every second of it.

It is reprehensible and slimy, and I'm totally not surprised by it in the least!

Just look at the average type of egotistical macho jackoff that end up the in army or marines and it explains itself.
No offense to anybody that is or was in the military (some of my best friends have been), but I'm sure you can think of quite a few people that fit the bill, and if you can, you don't qualify as one of them.

I really didn't read the whole page, but just from the first skim through, I think the real problem isn't with his predictions, he's probably correct in that we *could* and *should* have all of those things right now.

The simple fact is that that governments and those idiots in the marketing departments worldwide are the ones making the decisions as to what we should and should not use.

He can't take into account that there will be 9/11, just as he can't take into account that Stem Cell research would be restricted by Bush (thus hindering our bioengineering by 10 years or more), or that greed is driving the market, not ideas of technological utopia that most of us dream of.

Personally I think it's time we got off our asses and got ourselves to where he says we should be, if not further, and stop screwing around with trendy new cell phones and that uber-stylish newest macbook.

Oh you're so right mr. genius! Why don't we take into consideration that they're a "shit hole" communist country with dirty hospitals, etc.. no money for ambulances.. and then ask ourselves.. WHY are they so dirty and poor? Oh yeah, it's the trade embargo (because they're just... communists! ...unlike all those other communist countries we don't mind.. like China)thanks to the US!

The simple fact is that despite that handicap, they still at least try to provide free medical care to their citizens, which is more than I can say for our government and you selfish greedy bastards crying "not out of my wallet!".

If people living in a "shit hole" communist nation can take care of their people to the level that they even come close to our health care ratings, they're obviously doing something right, and we should be as ashamed as we are shamed by it.

Yeah, we get so many great truths out of our wonderful republic don't we? lies about WMDs, lies about links to terrorism, lies about threats to our nation, etc.. it goes on and on, and that's just Iraq 7 years ago. Get a clue and stop feeling like this is the greatest country in the world, guess what, maybe it was once, but it certainly isn't now.